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klama - video art by Lina Persson

An experiment of thinking about myself through two parallel perspectives simultaneously, using two cameras directed towards each other. Instead of thinking in the fixed perspective of leaving and approaching I use the Lojban (logical language) term »klama« which in itself doesn't specify from which perspective the movement is defined.

Artist
Lina Persson
Date
2005
Location
Fårö
Duration
6'

Torrent download (47 MiB, Theora)

Crass - The Feeding of the 5000

The first record by seminal anarcho-punk group Crass. When this record was originally released, the track »asylum« was replaced by just silence, due to striking workers at the record plant.

Track listing

  1. asylum
  2. do they owe us a living?
  3. end result
  4. they've got a bomb
  5. punk is dead
  6. reject of society
  7. general bacardi
  8. banned from the roxy
  9. g's song
  10. fight war, not wars
  11. women
  12. securicor
  13. sucks
  14. you pay
  15. angels
  16. what a shame
  17. so what
  18. well? ...do they?

Recorded live at Southern Studios, London 1978–10–29.

Torrent download (204 MiB, FLAC)

More info at Wikipedia

Falling - Beta Alpha Theta Delta [video experiment]

Still frame from the video

We are proud to present Falling – Beta Alpha Theta Delta, another video by Lina Persson.

»Falling« is about experiencing one's body and different states of mind. It is the result of a cooperation with dancers and a choreographer. The choreography is based on the movements of starfishes and recorded with motion capture technology. The movements of the different parts of the dancer's body are transformed into a shoal of starfishes, as if starfishes were attached to an invisible dancer. The conception of the body dissolves.

The soundtrack is made out of sound waves that when listened to in headphones are supposed to change the state of the brain from the wake state to the sleep state. The effect of the sounds can only be retained by listening to the soundtrack through headphones, when played with speakers the sound is only a suggestive mood maker.

Date
2006
Duration
6'
Dancer
Katja Korpi
Choreographer
Karen Maria Jonsdottir
Motion capture technician
Peter Lundgren

Torrent download (31 MiB, Theora)

Warning

Persons subject to any forms of seizures or epilepsy, persons using pacemakers, persons suffering from cardiac arrhythmia or other heart disorders, persons taking stimulants, psychoactive drugs, or tranquilizers should not listen to this soundtrack in headphones.

With one still camera each testing to think of the camera as a gun, while being filmed.

Stills from the video

This is both a documentation of one work and is another work in itself. It is a documentation of an experiment of interacting with three cameras and thereby three perspectives and what it does to the self-awareness. It is also an investigation of the camera as a concurring tool, using it in a game usually played with guns, referring to the violence of representation and objectification.

The film is also an attempt to visualize how the different perspectives relate to each other and how still images differ from the moving.

The film is a composite from two still cameras and one DV camera.

Artist
Lina Persson
Featuring
Johanna Ahlby, Lina Persson
Date
2005
Location
Fårö
Duration
6'

Torrent download (13 MiB, Theora)

A Conversation Interrupted [acrovideo]

A vicious fight in a park.

This is another video by Gisle Henriet and Hannes Winbäck who also made Such Great Heights. Check out the hilarious bloopers.

Date
2005
Location
Lund
Duration
8'

New release of Tango för enbenta

If you've had any problems trying to play Tango för enbenta, please try again with the new improved release (.torrent).

Kriget, demo EP from 2004

New torrent: Kriget (demo EP from 2004) by Gothenburg-based duo Kriget.

Torrent download (Ogg Vorbis, 11 MiB)
FLAC version, 73 MiB

Such Great Heights [acrovideo]

Hannes Winbäck »Two young acrobats with friends, full of fun and high spirits, showing off their acrobatic skills in parks, plazas, backyards, playgrounds and construction sites.«

Directed by
Gisle Henriet and Hannes Winbäck
Date
2005
Location
Lund and Skara

Torrent download (333 MiB, Theora)

Earlier releases